As we mentioned in our review of the Xbox One, the console requires that users download a Blu-ray player app before it is able to play a movie. Now it seems a number of owners of Microsoft’s newest console are reporting issues when playing DVD or Blu-ray movies.
Web sites are getting visited more and more by bots rather than humans, at least according to a new study by Incapsula. The company, which offers cloud-based services to web sites, revealed that 61.5 percent of Internet traffic is being generated by bots, adding that that figure has actually increased from 51 percent back in March 2012.
Microsoft has raised the price of digital downloads of Xbox One exclusive games Forza Motorsport 5, Dead Rising 3 and Ryse: Son of Rome by £5 each, adding to the high price already set for the games on the next-gen console.
If you have been wanting to use your old Xbox 360 controllers on Microsoft’s new Xbox One console, a company called CronusMAX has come to the rescue with the latest software update to their console hardware add-on. The new software version enables the Xbox One to use Xbox 360 gamepads when the CronusMAX product is connected to the console.
In the wake of the huge password breach where sites such as Facebook and Yahoo! were compromised, Microsoft developers have released a tool to curb the issue of account hacking.
Experimental project Telepathwords detects how risky passcodes are by predicting your password setting habits. The engine utilises a collection of passwords in its database along with an AI to make accurate predictions.
Microsoft may be trying to recruit current Ford CEO Alan Mulally to lead their company as the successor to the retiring Steve Ballmer, but Ford director Edsel Ford II says that Mulally has told the company’s board that he plans to remain with the car maker for another year at least.
Last week, it was reported that the Xbox One sold 150,000 units in the first 48 hours of its launch in the UK. Today, the retail sales tracking firm Chart-Track states that the launch of the PlayStation 4 had the fastest selling launch of any game console in the UK, beating the previous eight year record of the Sony PSP, which sold 180,000 units in its first 48 hours.
Apptricity, maker of logistics software useful for tracking location of soldiers and shipments in critical missions, has sued the US Government for defaulting on software license fees and operating unlicensed copies of the software for nearly a decade.
Just a few days after Nokia announced UK launch details for its giant 6-inch Windows Phone, the Lumia 1520, the company has now revealed details of pricing and availability there for its first Windows tablet.
Microsoft’s Games for Gold program, which offers free games to Xbox Live Gold subscribers, will offer “Gears of War” during the first half of December, the second major Xbox 360 game to be offered as part of the program, following “Halo 3″ in October.
Sony appears to have taken the extraordinary step of resetting ‘some’ users Playstation Network (PSN) passwords on accounts without letting the user know, leading many to think they have been hacked.
However a message popped up on the official account a few hours ago alerting users to the action taken.
Last week, AOL announced that version 5.66 of its Winamp media player would be its last and that all support and downloads for the 15-year old free application would end on December 20th. Now a movement to convince AOL to turn over the Winamp code to the open source community has started a petition that has already generated over 12,000 online signatures.
The Xbox One may only be officially on sale in two countries in the world at the moment (Australia and New Zealand) but the gadget repair site iFixit has already gotten their hands on Microsoft’s next generation console and subjected it to its teardown procedure.
Microsoft will ship the Xbox One to customers on Friday with a built in 500GB hard drive that’s been designed not to be removed or upgraded. At first, the company announced that the console would support adding external storage but later said the feature would not be available for launch.
Microsoft has already announced that the Twitch.tv app will be available for Xbox One U.S. users for the launch of the console on Friday. However, the app won’t be able to offer Xbox One owners a way to broadcast gameplay footage from their console to the service until sometime in the first half of 2014.
Nokia has not officially admitted the existence of the Lumia 929 smartphone, but rumors about the 5-inch device started popping up on the Internet in September. Now a new report, via unnamed sources, claims the 929 will go on sale on Thursday, November 21st exclusively from Verizon Wireless.
The PlayStation 4 launches in the U.S. today, and lines have been forming as eager users queue to get their hands on Sony’s next-generation console. But some of those who have already got their hands on a PS4 have been reporting problems with the device, which Sony has now acknowledged.
The Xbox One is a big console, there is no hiding this fact. But when you put it next to the PS4, you begin to understand how big it actually is. In fact, it reminds us of the first Xbox, as that console was also, quite large.
In the image above, you can see the PS4 sitting on-top of the Xbox One, courtesy of PCgamers.de. Even when placed next to the Xbox 360, the One is still quite large.
Just as the launch date of PlayStation 4 comes closer, Sony has surprised potential customers by updating their Software Usage Terms to disallow resell or renting of all PlayStation games unless authorized by them and the publisher in case it is not Sony.